Definitions
Etymologies
- a- + glow (Wiktionary)
Examples
“When he turned off the lights the bed spread was "aglow" in sperm shootings all over the thing.”
“She looked ahead to spring with both a longing and a joy, and all who knew her said her face was simply "aglow" with radiance.”
“The worn but spit-shined sanctuary is silent this weekday morning and the life-size statues of La Virgen de Guadalupe and St. Jude, aglow in shadowy candlelight, gaze benevolently out of their gaudy, flower-bedecked encasements.”
“I moved on, my heart aglow with the unexpected memory of making a lifelong commitment to my future wife.”
“Remember that your light is so small and fragile a thing that it requires all of your concentration to keep it aglow, like birthday candles in a hurricane.”
“If you look at any photograph of the Boddies, they're always smiling; you see Louise working at the stamper – which is a gruelling, nasty job – and she's all aglow.”
The Guardian: Homemade soul: the musical legacy of the Boddie Recording Company
“Then it was a splendid thought came to her, and at the wonder of it she was all aglow.”
“The flush of the morning was in her cheek, and its fire in her eyes, and she was aglow with youth and love.”
“Throughout the audience, parents' faces were aglow as they text-messaged throughout their children's performances.”
The Huffington Post: John Thompson: Electronic Devices Can Be an Educational Curse or Blessing
“But if you ask me which quick-cooking meal leaves me aglow on a winter weeknight, it would have to be a wonderful Indian stew out of a Madhur Jaffrey cookbook, or an equally wonderful Italian stew--maybe beef with pickles and capers--from Marcella Hazan.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘aglow’.
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When a door is ajar
Words with the prefix "a"
ajar, asleep, akin, ablaze, afoot, abed, aground, aback, afloat, alive, abaft, abloom and 91 more...
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I am : bright
Verbs and adjectives (mostly adjectives) pertaining to physical light, brightness and/or clarity.
bright, brilliant, ablaze, afire, aflame, incandescent, fluorescent, phosphorescent, lucent, lambent, transparent, clear and 29 more...
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♥
ambrosia, inamorata, gossamer, lily-white, hummingbird, roucoulement, poppy, daisy, calypso, lunula, lamb, dove and 1526 more...
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Mr. Prolagus is surprised
Words - or different usages of words I already knew - that I am learning thanks to Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery.
See also ofravens' with thanks to Anne Shirley.alder, decorum, ferret, dint, wont, gauntlet, turnip, sorrel, deft, embower, scant, peck and 92 more...
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Buttery
Words that make me feel cozy
Feather, Mug, Knit, Socks, Snug, Soft, Butter, Nugget, Noodle, Curl, Billow, Lounge and 315 more...
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Because I like them: A -- B
abacinate, aberdevine, ablepsy, abuccinate, acarology, acipenserine, abactor, adamantine, addressin, aeoline, ahimsa, agelast and 151 more...
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Words Covered in Faery Dust (A)
words that evoke magic, mystery, mayhem, magnificence or anything else that glimmers in the grass
abalone, abbey, abundant, aconite, acorn, addled, adept, aeon, aerie, aglow, ague, aire and 99 more...
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essigurken's Words
transubstantiation, pungent, omnipotent, craven, 'tis, saucy, entwine, inextricably, consummation, conglomeration, sepulchre, addendum and 264 more...
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One more switchback
Tip of the hat to Stephen, who always tells me "only one more switchback" as we go up the trail. Usually it is a lie, but it still works!
switchback, heavens to murgat..., prosody, catarrh, ice storm, existential, predicament, intermingle, comingle, stolid, zeitgeist, bibliophage and 146 more...
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Benandanti
All things Light
aureole, aura, aurora borealis, aglow, lucent, lambent, radiant, bright, burn, fire, solstice, brazier and 94 more...
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Love
A general collection of the sort of words that make me happy when I hear or read them in everyday conversation and writing.
velleities, discombobulated, boggle, breathtaking, enchanting, siren, luscious, moment, fiasco, delirium, darling, ethereal and 215 more...
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Tunie: Mark Rothko Song
A sad song by Dar Williams, from her album The Honesty Room.
The blue it speaks so full
It's like the beauty one can barely stand
Or too much things dropped in your ...pedestrians, kind, wash away, desperate, uptown, coffee, foot in the grave, folks, suicide, museum, powers, cost and 29 more...
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Light
words about light
lucent, lambent, glimmering, aglow, pearly, shimmery, scintillation, flouresce, starshine, halogen, mercury vapor, sodium vapor and 28 more...
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I like : A
aglow, aconite, aeon, aisle, altar, amulet, ancient, antiquity, ashram, athame, atoll, auburn and 72 more...
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iwouldstay's Words
blatant, unattainable, cwtch, auburn, fragment, furnace, imbibe, radiance, solace, incandescent, aglow, Heimat and 5 more...
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